mark down

mark someone down

[for a teacher] to give someone a low score. He'll mark you down for misspelled words. I marked down Tom for bad spelling.

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mark something down 

1. Lit. to write something down on paper. She marked the number down on the paper. She marked down the number.

2. Fig. to reduce the price of something. We are going to mark all this merchandise down next Monday. We marked down the merchandise.

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mark down something also mark something down

to reduce the price of something The machine, originally priced at $50, was marked down to $37.50. If it doesn't sell at full price, we'll have to mark it down.

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